Gates Airport
7D8 · Garrettsville, Ohio · Geauga County · map
Gates Airport is a public-use airport, 4 miles north of Garrettsville, Ohio, 1,104 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 2,800 feet of grass and gravel.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 7D8
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,104 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- APR to NOV, irregular hours
- On the chart
- Detroit sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1967
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 2,800 × 100 ft | Grass and gravel, fair |
- Runway 08: trees 87 ft high 72 ft from the end
- Runway 26: trees 62 ft high 45 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Garrettsville from the FAA register
7 aircraft are registered to owners in Garrettsville, Ohio: 6 piston singles, 1 piston twin. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Ohio.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- VFR only.
- Skydiving act.
- Airport phys ads: 15199 grove road, Garrettsville, OH 44231-9541.
- Yellow cones.
- Yellow cones.
- Ctlg obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp.
- Ctlg obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp.
- Rough.
- Patches of loose gravel.
- Runway drops 10 feet on east end.
- 16 feet hill/brush starting 0 feet from aer 26.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.